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A Mediterranean port at sunrise with the Embarkation of Saint Paula for Jerusalem
Auction: 12/03/2013
Lot: 21
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Claude Le (Gellee) Lorrain AUCTION RECORDS
c. 1600 Chamagne, France - 1682 Rome, Italy. Known for: Idealist, pastoral landscape painting, fresco, Biblical themes.
Claude Gellee, who was called Lorrain after his native province of Lorraine, was born in c. 1600 at Chamagne, France, near Nancy. He settled in Rome perhaps as early as 1613. He spent nearly all his... Read full biography
Claude Gellee, who was called Lorrain after his native province of Lorraine, was born in c. 1600 at Chamagne, France, near Nancy. He settled in Rome perhaps as early as 1613. He spent nearly all his adult life there. When a young man, he worked in the household of Agostino Tassi, the landscape and... Read full biography
Claude Gellee, who was called Lorrain after his native province of Lorraine, was born in c. 1600 at Chamagne, France, near Nancy. He settled in Rome perhaps as early as 1613. He spent nearly all his adult life there. When a young man, he worked in the household of Agostino Tassi, the landscape and marine painter, in some menial function, either as a pastry cook or a general factotum. We know that he was in Rome at the time and continued to live there, working with Poussin and Salvator Rosa. His... Read full biography
Claude Gellee, who was called Lorrain after his native province of Lorraine, was born in c. 1600 at Chamagne, France, near Nancy. He settled in Rome perhaps as early as 1613. He spent nearly all his adult life there. When a young man, he worked in the household of Agostino Tassi, the landscape and marine painter, in some menial function, either as a pastry cook or a general factotum. We know that he was in Rome at the time and continued to live there, working with Poussin and Salvator Rosa. His early work was chiefly in fresco, of which little remains, but his fame is based on landscape canvases, often with biblical or mythological subjects. Patronized principally by the Italian nobility, he also enjoyed an international reputation.... Read full biography
Claude Gellee, who was called Lorrain after his native province of Lorraine, was born in c. 1600 at Chamagne, France, near Nancy. He settled in Rome perhaps as early as 1613. He spent nearly all his adult life there. When a young man, he worked in the household of Agostino Tassi, the landscape and marine painter, in some menial function, either as a pastry cook or a general factotum. We know that he was in Rome at the time and continued to live there, working with Poussin and Salvator Rosa. His early work was chiefly in fresco, of which little remains, but his fame is based on landscape canvases, often with biblical or mythological subjects. Patronized principally by the Italian nobility, he also enjoyed an international reputation. Together with Poussin he is responsible for the classical revival in French landscape painting of the seventeenth century. Among the many later paint... Read full biography
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeAn extensive landscape with shepherds and shepherdesses dancing
Claude Le (Gellee) Lorrain Auction: 12/07/2010Lot: 51Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeTHE VALLEY OF THE ANIENE, NEAR TIVOLI, WITH THE RUINS OF THE AQUA ANIO NOVUS AQUEDUCT
Claude Le (Gellee) Lorrain Auction: 01/31/2018Lot: 2Subscribe or get free alerts
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeA pastoral landscape with a shepherd and shepherdess
Claude Le (Gellee) Lorrain Auction: 07/06/2016Lot: 38Subscribe or get free alerts
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